Leading to war (film about the Iraq war)

After 5 years of war in Iraq without an end in sight, I felt the great “desire” to post what led to this war in 2003.
I am very glad that I found this website and this 72-minute film called “Leading to war”.
This film is available online for free on this website

It shows the evolution of the US government’s case for military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime… I guess, it is very ironically to see today how the US government did lead its people to war and how did it communicate to it’s own citizen and the world…

And with the knowledge of today, we know that everything was a great big lie… all the rhetorics, all the spin!

LEADING TO WAR is comprised entirely of archival news footage – without commentary, without voiceover – presented chronologically from President Bush’s State of the Union address in January, 2002 (the “axis of evil” speech), and continuing up to the announcement of formal U.S. military action in Iraq on March 19, 2003.

Covering these 14 months, the film presents selected interviews, speeches, and press conferences given by President Bush and his administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, as well as by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others.

This compressed, chronological view offers a unique opportunity to examine the media record from a historical perspective, allowing the material to speak for itself. Footage was licensed from major news sources, including ABC, AP, BBC, CNN, ITN, and NBC.

LEADING TO WAR is also intended as a historical record for future generations, who will not have had firsthand experience of the precise, incremental steps taken by the government in presenting its case for war.

I will start with some great declarations:

The good and the evil

The connection between Saddam and the war on terror

The ties to Al Quaeda

Campaign against inspections – sounds familar?

and it goes on and on and on…

It is a great page because it shows only facts and exactly the path to war in Iraq – what was said, how many lies were told and how easy it is to fool the world….
It happened with Iraq and it can happen again – maybe with Iran?

Iraq’s nuclear program ended in 1991 following the first Gulf War, and was never reconstituted. Iraq destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. Its biological weapons were destroyed in 1991 and 1992. Through 1998, U.N. weapons inspectors repeatedly checked suspected facilities, and had installed cameras to monitor activity at these sites, all the claims were not true…

But today we know all of that!!!

Nevertheless…. while having the costs of this war in mind, especially the human costs, we should remember what happened 5 years ago.
People have a short memory!!!